Category: Philosophy as a Way of Life
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you can be delivered from a state of disquiet « coromandal
Philosophy isn’t an esoteric inaccessible pursuit; it is lessons that can have a very real affect on life. Often philosophers write about simple reactions and observations to life’s problems. Montaigne for instance – I just learned – wrote mostly about everyday almost pedantic and sometimes domestic topics. via you can…
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The New Jim Crow: Enslaving our Future
In case you don’t have it in you to read the book–which I highly recommend as something you SHOULD read–here is a very nice overview. Do not let yourself believe that incarceration in the United States of America is doing much more than creating a new slave class out of…
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Aphorism 12 Dec 2012
The goal of science is the utility of understanding. The target of philosophizing is the beauty of comprehension.
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Essay on the idea that non-philosophers should judge philosophers | Inside Higher Ed
An article recently completed by my colleagues at UNT”s Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity. Worth the read good brothers & sisters of the Ether. One of the oldest questions of philosophy is, “Who guards the guardians?” When Plato posed this question — if not quite this succinctly — his…
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Los Angeles Review of Books – Philosophy As An Art Of Living
A really nice set of book reviews for some texts I would recommend myself. Along with Pierre Hadot’s Philosohpy as a Way of Life, these are the kinds of texts people should be looking into for changing themselves. As the reviewer states, all this talk about “changing the world” is easy…
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Driving toward Innovation
Humans have drives–natural & social. Our natural drives we may call our instincts for survival. Our social drives we might refer to as our habits for success. Obviously, in all things, there are times when natural & social impulses conflict. I will deal with that issue in a later blog.…
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Letters From Millennial Voters – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast
These letters that Sullivan has collected are an education for older Americans. Folks should give a look & think about what Millenials are saying. Letters From Millennial Voters – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast.
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Dreamstate: Holographic & Multidimensional « Thoughts of a Taoist Babe
Interesting take on things from an artist… and some stunning art as well. For quite awhile now, I have been going on and on about my vivid dreams and the process of dreaming, ad nauseum. Not only have I given detailed accounts to what I have seen, I have also…
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Coursera & the Future of Yesterday
A nice overview of what a motivated person got out of a Coursera offering on Greek & Roman mythology. Makes me want to do it and possibly see which of my friends would like to do it with me. The role of the bricks and mortar university is going to…
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About Us | Open Culture
I cannot sing the praises of this site enough. Go there and look around good friend of the Ether. What is Open Culture’s Mission? Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and…
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Adoration, Anniversary >> Becoming Integral
Congrats to Sam over at Becoming Integral on his blog’s one year anniversary. I have known Sam for a decade. His posts on his blog have been real highlight’s for me this year. Keep up the Loving Struggle good brother! And Happy Anniversary from Reason & Existenz. 8^) Adoration, Anniversary.
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Feeling Sad and Depressed? « beyondclicktivism
Feeling Sad and Depressed? « beyondclicktivism.
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